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Cromwell said: 'Aye, men are needed to keep down the Papists of your North parts. The two men faced each other. It had been part of the Duke's plan and Cromwell knew it very well that the City men should meet with the Lutherans there in the King's own park.
The soldiers of the Lord of Hosts proved themselves a match for the soldiers of the earthly monarch. But to return to the general narrative, which has been interrupted to introduce Cromwell to the reader, To die in such a cause was to the saint a "comfort great above his pain. Yet one thing hung upon his spirit. I asked him what that was.
People said it was entirely a love match; but, whether that was the case or no, all I know is, that on changing the honoured name of Planetree the first Earl had been boot-black to the conquering Cromwell in Ireland for the base-born patronymic Dasher, all her troubles began. Her noble relatives cut her dead in the first instance, as Dasher, aspiring though he was, aspired a trifle too high.
Cromwell smiled too, licking his lips dangerously; Baumbach, the Schmalkaldner, understanding nothing, rolled his German blue eyes in his great head like a pink baby's, and tried to catch the attention of Cromwell, who talked over his shoulder to one of his men. But the many Lutherans that there were in the hall scowled at the floor.
In later times a Strafford, a Laud, an Oliver Cromwell, a Clarendon presided over the destinies of England. But in the second half of the seventeenth century there began that division of politicians into two sides or parties which has continued ever since. This division sprang, no doubt, from the civil wars between King and Parliament, between Cavalier and Roundhead.
Lilburne's, which had driven away most of its officers, remained sulky and vociferous, till Cromwell, riding up to them, ordered them also to remove that thing from their hats, and, on their refusing, had fourteen of them dragged from the ranks, three of these tried on the spot and condemned to death, and one of the three shot.
"I shall look on the gibbet more boldly," replied Wildrake, "than I have seen you look on the Royal Martyr's picture." This reproach touched Cromwell to the very quick.
Pedants may try hard to forget this, and may in their laboured nothings seek to ignore the author of 'Cromwell' and 'The French Revolution'; but as well might the pedestrian in Cumberland or Inverness seek to ignore Helvellyn or Ben Nevis. Carlyle is there, and will remain there, when the pedant of today has been superseded by the pedant of to-morrow.
The incident of Cromwell's sons is most happily invented. Charles's magnanimity in restoring to Cromwell his sons is finer than that of Augustus pardoning Cinna." In blowing his own trumpet Balzac was early an adept. To stimulate his imagination and reflection, he transferred his daily walk from the Jardin des Plantes to the Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
In ominous words Cromwell supported the demand of the army. "As for the members of this Parliament, the army begins to take them in disgust. I would it did so with less reason."
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